Hassleblad Jumps the Shark

[I.G.I.]

Human history WAS driven by such values. Its just the way things are.

This is sheer nonsense! I would politely suggest you to open some anthropology books.

 

[omaha]

The value of which I speak is individuals maximizing their own utility.

Everyone does it. Everyone always has. Everyone always will. Its just our nature.

 

[Moopheus]

The value of which I speak is individuals maximizing their own utility.

I've encountered many in my life who seem intent on minimizing their own utility.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

I've encountered many in my life who seem intent on minimizing their own utility.

Cool. I'll abide...

s-a

 

[Vilk]

And ice cream. There's still ice cream.

'pends where you live :confused:

 

[ntenny]

The value of which I speak is individuals maximizing their own utility.

Everyone does it. Everyone always has. Everyone always will. Its just our nature.

This is the basic principle of utilitarian philosophy and rational-actor economics, and there's a lot of research in economics, primatology, and anthropology that takes issue with it.

This isn't very on-topic for "industry news", I guess, but there's an interesting monograph by David Graeber called _Fragments Of An Anarchist Anthropology_---it's available as a free PDF download, I believe---that includes some analysis of the countervailing anthropological evidence. (He's a polemicist in some ways, of course, but he's also a competent academic anthropologist and a pretty good writer. Whether or not you agree with his thesis, the evidence he adduces for it is interesting.)

It just doesn't work very well to try to explain social-animal behavior in terms of "individuals maximizing their own utility". By the time you get done defining "individuals", "maximizing", "their own", and "utility" in ways that are meaningful in that context, the phrase doesn't mean anything like what it sounds like at first blush, and you might as well have started from a whole different framing.

-NT

 

[Tom1956]

I'm glad I'm educated enough to know that a certain amount of my education is baloney.

 

[c6h6o3]

If Victor Hasselblad were alive today he would turn in his grave!


Steve.

More likely he'd start digging his way out.

 

[visualbassist]

if victor hasselblad was alive, he wouldn' be in a grave.

 

[Steve Smith]

if victor hasselblad was alive, he wouldn' be in a grave.

Yes... It's a very old joke!


Steve.

 

[c6h6o3]

I have no doubt that this camera will fall into the obscurity it so richly deserves

 

[analoguey]

(Is it okay to cross post from another forum's links?) Found this interesting link on recent Hassies, seems like QC is really bad.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

(Is it okay to cross post from another forum's links?) Found this interesting link on recent Hassies, seems like QC is really bad.

Yikes. Sounds more like a distributor issue than an issue with Hasselblad, who admittedly have a product issue, but have stepped up to the plate to help out at least.

 

[PtJudeRI]

Well, say what you will, but I would love it if such a device became reality, so that I would never have to worry about being able to continue to use some of my favorite cameras when film is no longer available/affordable. I hope that this event horizon is beyond my lifetime, but it would be nice to have the alternative available should it happen sooner rather than later.

Well that is my thinking. Along with my love of film, I do like the fact that cameras were built to last (at least at the pro- prosumer level). One of my biggest gripes about digital is the throw away mentality that it brings to photography and gear. The D70 I bought 4 years ago is crap, the D90 I got 2 years ago feels tired, yet my F5, F2, and N80 (to add a consumer level model) are still trucking along just fine with no issues. To have a drop in digital solution for color photography (damn you if you take my B&W chemicals!!) would be a nice addition.

As a segway to getting this back on track, I am appalled that a camera costing that much will simply be a paperweight in a few years.